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6 thoughts on “Tell me about Macclesfield”

I loved the movie. I am very thankful they stuck only to the facts. Why would you want to see the filmmaker speculate and dramatize something that you are actually interested in knowing the truth about. This would give millions who see the movie a false impression of the man. The story was perfect and could not have been better, in that it was the truth.

liked the film visually, but I felt the story telling was a bit flat as well as overly linear. Told as fly on the wall, but I felt the story only showed the outlines as if to say any inspirational aspect of Ian’s life was unknowable. Just the facts, Ma’am.

Like many who loved Joy Division, as I grew up, I related to Ian Curtis’s inner world by his music and videos. I feel like Ian put him inner world out there in his music and the videos which was key to his talent. I didn’t get this from the film, although I did pick up the stylistic narrative of his life events.

I’m not saying it was a bad film, but I did expect more depth from this rich material.

I just felt that the characterisation was so flat and that I learned very little about Curtis’s inner life – which was meant to be the main thing. It was shot beautifully and looked amazing – you can tell what Corbijn is really good at. The story though? Not so much.